Sociological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociological Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The familiar strange of sociological fiction26
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting26
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen26
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?25
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 202225
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities23
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies21
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste19
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools17
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability17
Food consumption, habitus and the embodiment of social change: Making class and doing gender in urban Vietnam16
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway15
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach14
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care13
Citizen science and social movements: A case of participatory monitoring of genetically modified crops in Japan13
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop13
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’13
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes13
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club13
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*12
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction12
Who counts in poverty research?12
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments12
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure11
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey11
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India11
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family11
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’11
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna11
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community11
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis10
Racialised mobilities in China10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia10
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal9
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura9
Hoping amidst precarity: Changing modes of hope in the vicissitudes of a Chinese art village9
Some stories, more scenes9
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism9
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’8
Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space8
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain8
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence8
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives8
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)8
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda8
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research7
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map7
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities7
Fiction in Goffman7
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum7
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain7
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism7
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies7
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’7
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis7
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances7
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement6
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic6
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk6
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem6
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload6
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach6
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK6
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s6
The lines of descent of the present crisis6
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure6
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID6
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture6
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–19405
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement5
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)5
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit5
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism5
Dark waters, dark waters5
Habitus in the context of transnationalization: From ‘transnational habitus’ to a configuration of dispositions and fields5
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place5
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture4
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship4
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe4
By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship4
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling4
Introduction4
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal4
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?4
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic4
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures4
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity4
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress4
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration4
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?4
‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell4
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship4
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment4
Corrigendum4
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe4
Food and social change: Culinary elites, contested technologies, food movements and embodied social change in food practices4
Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people4
Towards an empirically robust theory of stigma resistance in the ‘new’ sociology of stigma: Everyday resistance in sheltered workshops4
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife3
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness3
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation3
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality3
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-193
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice3
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings3
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss3
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility3
(Bio)politics of existence and social change: Insights from the Good Food Movement3
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity3
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination3
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis3
Deconstructing giftedness: A relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance3
Nostalgic neighborhood belongings: Theorizing the interrelationship among nostalgias, belongings and neighborhood changes3
Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka3
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance3
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory3
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam3
Living differently? A feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of the transformative power of basic income3
State containment and closure of gendered possibilities among a millennial generation: On not knowing Muslim young men3
Sociography: Writing Differently3
Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia3
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation3
Family and queer temporality among Chinese young gay men: Yes, but not yet2
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem2
Asymmetrical understandings of the value of time between Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers and the Australian government: Cultural exchange or serving time?2
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction2
Food as medicine: Making ‘better bananas’ in Uganda2
Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding2
An ontological turn in the sociology of personal life: Tracing facet methodology’s connective ontology2
Therapeutic politics and the institutionalisation of dignity: ‘Treated like the Queen’2
Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology2
Budgets and biologicals: The bio-economization of HIV governance2
Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America2
Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?2
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear2
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living2
The uses of poetry2
The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-192
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability2
Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma2
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation2
‘Clean communication’: Felt-sense methodologies and the reflexive researcher in equine-assisted personal development2
Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia2
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change2
Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’2
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration2
The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships2
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown2
Writing and exhibiting a ‘live’ and convivial sociology: Portraiture and women’s lived experiences of a French suburb2
Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology2
The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict2
Class Mistreatment in Elite Settings: Upward Mobility and Cross-class Interactions2
Knowledge, progress and the knowledge of progress2
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour2
Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment2
Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment2
Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships2
Epidemiological plots and the national syndrome2
Difference and diversity: Combining multiculturalist and interculturalist approaches to integration2
The lonely activist: On being haunted2
Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia2
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